Remarkable: Fox News hosts are openly savaging Trump's tariffs. On the pod, @mattgertz.bsky.social is great on the deeper sources of Fox discontent. The plutocrats shouldn't have "preferred an insurrectionist to someone who might raise their taxes." Oops. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1928... - ThreadSky

gregsargent.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Remarkable: Fox News hosts are openly savaging Trump's tariffs. On the pod, @mattgertz.bsky.social is great on the deeper sources of Fox discontent. The plutocrats shouldn't have "preferred an insurrectionist to someone who might raise their taxes." Oops.

Listen:
https://newrepublic.com/article/192891/fox-anchor-suddenly-unloads-trump-economy-brutal-new-poll-hits

Comments

oeishik.bsky.social•20 days ago

Because they're seeing the markets go down & consumer confidence wane. Money doesn't lie. At least not to Maria. https://youtu.be/yVK75OHqDXo

ourhaus.bsky.social•20 days ago

Experts say that face eating leopards have been spotted nearby.

reliablenarrator.bsky.social•18 days ago

Oh, I get it. Spotted.

ourhaus.bsky.social•18 days ago

I hadn't spotted my unintentional spotted pun! 😊

bootsyspankinspi.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s because Fox was highly influential on his policy decisions during his first term. Now they’re screaming into a void because his influence is coming from a more nefarious and consequential place. He’s got their viewers wrapped around his finger for life anyway.

mel2lou.bsky.social•19 days ago

We know exactly what Trump is doing with tariffs in the economy. He’s purposely taking it so his broligarchs can scoop up our assets on the cheap.

cigarsavorkev.bsky.social•20 days ago

The S&P in the past 4 weeks through March 18, down over 8%. Velveeta Voldemort steering the SS Tariff directly toward the recession iceberg.

mickied.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maria's portfolio must be tanking.

matt.loar.name•19 days ago

samshell2.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fix News is o.k. with Trump’s lies & outrageous, absurd statements, but seems to get “nervous”when he negatively affects our economy & stock market. When you “help” create a monster,it doesn’t guarantee they won’t eventually turn on you. Trump’s insanity, ignorance,bigotry & hatred affects us all.

muppetofchaos.bsky.social•20 days ago

The leopards have a taste for everyone's faces. Who knew?

It's like in the movies when a monster attacks and kills its creator.

golfgate.bsky.social•20 days ago

Forgot who sent this to me.

stillngb.bsky.social•20 days ago

dimitriana.bsky.social•18 days ago

Reading this makes me think that if the media were as hard on Trump as it was on Biden and the economy, that 47% approval ratings would be in the mid-30s right now and below Biden.

reliablenarrator.bsky.social•18 days ago

Good

fatguyonbluesky.bsky.social•20 days ago

The guy who made his money cheating on taxes and cleaning money for the Russian mob is a dumb dumb when it comes to business? Noooooooo!

welshrarebit.bsky.social•20 days ago

Such superbrains. It’s not like this wasn’t predictable. Hostility to international trade has been Trump’s signature theme for decades.

markesienko.bsky.social•18 days ago

And maybe it's just me,.. but isn't this one looking like a neglected 20 year old Harley these days,.?? Minus the fringe vest of course,... 😬😎

typoaspraxis.bsky.social•18 days ago

Misogyny isn’t the fun gotcha you think it is.

Criticize her for shitty opinions and actions, not because she no longer looks fuckable to you personally.

markesienko.bsky.social•18 days ago

You're not wrong,.. But you seem to forget about all the articles on her being their ' smarter than everyone else financial Barbie!' And it's impossible to NOT notice in her appearance over a few short months!

typoaspraxis.bsky.social•18 days ago

I honestly don’t know who she is, I don’t keep up with Fox pundits. I just assume they are giant pieces of shit.

I guess my hot take is that we can’t let them infect our minds with their way of determining who has value. I’m down to fight back, but let them keep the base bigotry and sexism.

game-of-pricks.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fox is a spin machine, who defends its “news” coverage in court by denying that they are a news station. They’re right-wing info-tainment & they tailor their content for that type of audience. I can’t imagine they would ever go whole hog in blaming Trump for whatever happens to the economy.

simiansilverback.bsky.social•20 days ago

Everyone should bookmark Trump taking credit for a slight dip in inflation. These statistics are rarely a straight line up or down, but Trump taking ownership of this dip makes it logically impossible for him to blame Biden when it goes the other way. As it will.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/winning-inflation-eases-as-job-creation-soars-and-border-security-pays-off/

alisonm.bsky.social•18 days ago

Since when has logical impossibility been a barrier to anything Trump claims?

simiansilverback.bsky.social•16 days ago

Never. But, in the future you will be talking to a Trump supporter and he or she will say that inflation is Biden's fault. You will unsheath this factoid and lunge it into their frontal lobe. They will be unfazed as you targeted an organ they do not use, but your friends will cheer your victory.

dacowan.bsky.social•19 days ago

Huh. Maria has that same pathetic look on her face as Mitch McConnell had when he finally realized what he had enabled for years.

fluttermouse-art.bsky.social•18 days ago

I just heard a commercial for Newsmax promoting criticism of DOGE for targeting Social Security

bblumenthal.bsky.social•18 days ago

DOGE - Disgusting Oligarch Grifting Everyone.
Or Muskrat. Either works for me.

chaoticrespite.bsky.social•20 days ago

If not now, when?
If not us, whom?

kastero.bsky.social•20 days ago

Trump never said that tariffs would cover income tax after 8 weeks. Only that those can replace it little by little.
So the Fox hosts need to let his politics work, and then scale up their disgust, when it actually is proved being a miscalculation.

92wolv.bsky.social•19 days ago

Trump may think he has a backstop at the Fed. If the market continues to slide and we appear headed into a recession .. . . and if Powell won't lower interest rates (or lower them enough), Trump will fire him and install someone that will. Trump has indicated he believes he has this power.

socalstephanie.bsky.social•19 days ago

iirc he also mused about making himself fed chair. All things considered, it would not be surprising if he tried

kitty-wampus.bsky.social•19 days ago

In a Mafia State even plutocrats are not safe. Russian oligarchs fall from windows on the semi-regular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

mizzlethizzle.bsky.social•18 days ago

Womp womp

hermietseal.bsky.social•14 days ago

Gee, is Maria Bartiromo finally figuring out she’s been boosting a vile idiot? Duh!

hopefulbob.bsky.social•19 days ago

Greg: Great insights as to how the Fox ecosystem is wrestling with the real-world negative implications of Trump tariffs. As you noted, since they are a tax on consumption, tariff pain falls disproportionately on the poor, working class and middle class.